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on short petioles, mostly withering and falling away before the flowers ex- 

 pand. Flowers small, while, arranged in a row which winds once or twice 

 around the stem. July. L'idies' Tresses. 



2. S. ^stiva'lis. Rick. Ophrys. Mx. S. tortilis. Sictz. 

 Radical haves linear ; scope sheathed ; Jloicers spirally secund ; lip some- 

 what 3-lobed, the middle lobe larger, crenulate. A plant mostly Similar to the 

 last, in woods and meadows. Leaves 3—0 inches long, 2—4 lines wide, 

 commonly disappearing befoie flowering. Scape slender, a foot or more h'gh, 

 with a spiral row of oblique, small, white flowers, foiming a twisted spike 

 2 — 4 inches long. July. Summer Ladies' Tresses. 



3. S. Ce'rnua. Rich. Neottia. IVilld. 

 Leaves radical, linear-lanceolate, nerved ; stem sheathed ; spike dense ; 



flmcers recurved, drooping ; sepals and petnis cohering; lip oblong, entire or 

 crenulate, dilated at the apex. In moist grounds. Scape ^ — 1;^ foot high, 

 rather stout, pubescent above, with a dense, twisted spike at summit 1 — 2 

 inches long. Leaves 3 or more, nearly or quite radical, 3 — 8 or 10 inches 

 long, i — ] inch wide. Bracts ovate, acuminate, as long as the greenish 

 flowers. Aug. — Oct. .Xodding Ladies' Tresses. 



13. GOODYE'RA. 

 Ppiianth ringent; cal} x herbar.cous, upper sepal vaulted, 

 the 2 lower ones beneath tlie saccate and entire lip ; column 

 free, polien angular; stigma prominent, roundish. 



Named for John Goodyer, an obscure English botanist. 

 G. pube'scens. 



Leaves radical, ovate, petiolate, reticulate ; scape sheathed, and, with the 

 flowers pubescent ; lip ovate, acuminate; petals ovate. A plant found ir, 

 woods, reiiiarkably distinguished for its leaves which are all radical and of a 

 dark green, reticulated above with white veins. They are ovate, 1 — 2 inches 

 in length, contracted at base into winged petioles scarcely half as long. Scape 

 erect, 6— 12 inches high. Flowers white, iti a terminal, oblong, cylindric 

 spike. Lip roundish, saccate, inflated. Jl., Aug. Ruttle-svake Plantain. 



/3. repens (G. repens. Br.) ; leaves less conspicuously reticulated ; spike 

 somewhat unilateral. A reduced form of G. pubescens, certainly unworthy 

 of being exalted into a species. Stem C — 8 inches high. Flowers in one row 

 which is more or less spiral. 



14. Ll'STERA. 



Lip 2-lobed, pendent, with no callous processes; column 

 wingless, minute; anther fixed by its base, persistent. 



Named for Dr. Martin Lister, an English naturalist, died 1711. 



L. CORDA'ta. Br. Epipactis. Swtz. 



Stem 2-leavpd, the leaves opposite, deltoid-subcordate, acute ; raceme few- 

 flowered ; lip linear, 2-toothed at base, deeply bifid, with divaricate and acute 

 segments; co'umn very short. Root fibrous. Stem 4 — 8 inches high, fur- 

 rowed. Leaves ^ — | inch in diameter, sessile, about half way up the stem. 

 Flowers minute, greenish purple, 10 — 15, in a short raceme. A delicate little 

 plant, in woods and sphagnous swamps, among mountains, &c. July. Aug, 



Lily Orchis. 



